George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Jul 15, 2023

I joined SAG in 1959, a member for 64 years.

In 1960, Ronald Reagan led the call for an actor’s strike. He riled up a meeting at the Hollywood Palladium shouting “Strike, strike, strike!”

I voted for the actors’ strike authorization this June and support the WGA.

We're in solidarity.

Show threadBrooklynMan (in exile) 🏳️‍🌈Jul 15, 2023

@georgetakei geez, George, next time you choose a role model, pick one that didn't ignore the HIV/AIDS epidemic for nearly a decade, directly contributing to millions of deaths of gay men. and that's not even to mention a presidency rife with corruption, crime, and - yeah - union-busting.

sheesh...

Show threadJobu TupakiJul 15, 2023

@brooklynman this is closer to how i understood Takei's purport: underscoring the hypocrisy of a public figure who supported unions to his own advantage, only to turn around and denigrate them for political gain. someone not anchored in any enduring principles.

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@georgetakei Figures a fucking Republican would enjoy the benefits of a strike for himself, and then deny another union their right to strike 20 years later.

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Show threadBrooklynMan (in exile) 🏳️‍🌈Jul 15, 2023
@RubyTuesdayDONO what I see in Takei’s words is highlighting the good thing Reagan did, while you’re *inferring* a negative which simply isn’t there. This is why it had to be stated by another.
Show threadJobu Tupaki
@brooklynman
i understand. i humbly beg to submit that my inference is not unfounded: knowing Takei's perspective, i find it entirely implausible that he holds Reagan in high regard. however we might agree that this invocation of Reagan can be perplexing without considering the missing context, since that the hypocrisy is not explicitly denounced.
Jul 15, 2023 at 10:15pmFedilab
Show threadJobu TupakiJul 15, 2023
@brooklynman
perhaps it's an appeal for Reagan supporters to support SAG-AFTRA like Reagan once did. i wouldn't have made the same choice to invoke him here. but i appreciate the opportunity to lean about this history. part of me is impishly looking forward to (explicitly) confronting Reagan cultists in my community with his hypocrisy 😈
Show threadBrooklynMan (in exile) 🏳️‍🌈Jul 15, 2023
@RubyTuesdayDONO I doubt that this is an appeal to Reganites. I've followed Takei for a long time. I belive this is simply a case of him being careless.
Show threadBrooklynMan (in exile) 🏳️‍🌈Jul 15, 2023
@RubyTuesdayDONO I’m not saying that he holds Regan in high regard-- as I mentioned in an earlier reply, I believe his words were sloppy and that he should speak with more care. There's no need to have mentioned Regan at all.
Show threadJobu TupakiJul 16, 2023
@brooklynman hmm, that makes sense … i wonder in hindsight if i was trying too hard to make "4-dimensional chess" out of it, when Occam's razor offers other mundane-but-likely possibilities. thank you for sharing your perspective!